...their people's revolutionary party, the task of which is to become a mass party and not be contaminated by alien elements."

The third question from the Mongolian delegation: "Should not the people's revolutionary party transform itself into a communist one?"

Comrade Lenin's answer:

"I do not recommend this, because one party cannot 'transform itself' into another." Explaining the essence of the communist party as the party of the proletariat, Comrade Lenin said: "Revolutionary workers will still have much labor ahead in their state, economic, and cultural construction before a proletarian mass is created from pastoral elements, which will subsequently help in the 'transformation' of the people's revolutionary party into a communist one. A simple change of signboard is harmful and dangerous."

Comrade Lenin broadly developed for our delegation the idea of the possibility and necessity of non-capitalist development of the MPR, wherein the principal condition ensuring the transition to the path of non-capitalist development is the strengthening of the work of the people's revolutionary party and government, so that as a result of this work and the strengthening of the party's and government's influence, cooperatives would grow, new forms of economic organization and national culture would be introduced, and the aratstvo would rally around the party and government for the economic and cultural development of the country. Only from the islands of new economic structure created under the influence of the party and government will the new non-capitalist economic system of aratian Mongolia be formed.

First printed in 1934 in the book "Ninth Congress of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (September 28 - October 5, 1934)."

Ulan Bator, Publishing House "Contemporary Mongolia"

Printed according to the text of the book

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